a newsletter from Bayer CropScience
Volume 19 • Issue 1
Trilex AL Powerful protection for pulses and soybeans Newly registered Trilex® AL seed treatment provides pulse and soybean growers with a new option to protect their crops from seed and soil-borne diseases as well as a product that works well with inoculants. New Trilex AL contains two unique fungicides that help protect the seeds and seedlings in the critical early days of growth and establishment. That protection pays later in the season as improved vigor delivers better yields and disease protection safeguards both yield and quality. The two active ingredients and modes of action in Trilex AL are trifloxystrobin, a Group 11 fungicide, and metalaxyl, a Group 4 fungicide. Trilex AL protects pulse seed and seedlings from economically significant diseases such as seed rot and damping-off caused by Rhizoctonia solani, Fusarium spp. and Pythium spp., root rot caused by Phomopsis, as well as seed-borne diseases Botrytis in lentils and Phomopsis in soybeans. Registered Crops • Bean (succulent, snap and dry): includes field bean, kidney bean, lima bean, navy bean, pinto bean, runner bean, snap bean, tepary bean, wax bean, and other coloured beans • Chickpea • Pea (dry and field): includes dwarf pea, edible-pod pea, English pea,
field pea, garden pea, green pea, snow pea, sugar snap pea • Lentil • Soybean Trials show that Trilex AL, which is designed for commercial or on-farm treating with conventional seed treating equipment, is safer and works together better than other pulse seed treatments on the market when used with inoculants, whether peat, liquid or granular-based. Trial results In Bayer CropScience trials conducted in Western Canada from 2002 to 2006, Trilex AL outperformed the major pulse seed treatment competitors and was way ahead of untreated checks for control of Rhizoctonia or Fusarium in pulses, and Botrytis in lentils. Specifically, in the lentil trials, plant stand was 136.7% greater than the check and yield 121% better. In field peas the stand topped the check by 133% and outyielded the check by 128%. While in chick peas plant stand was an impressive 406% of check and yield 742% of check. In all these crops, Trilex AL outperformed competitors. In dry beans, which are very susceptible to disease, the plants treated with Trilex AL produced plant stands 1432% greater and yields 126% greater than checks – equal with competitors.
Drybeans EMERGENCE INDEX – RHIZOCTONIA AND FUSARIUM INOCULATED TRIALS
TRILEX AL
1432
APRON MAXX
1434
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% EMERGENCE RELATIVE TO THE UNTREATED INOCULATED CHECK Source: 2002-2003, 18 Bayer CropScience Research Trials.
In inoculated trials, dr y beans infected with Rhizoctonia and Fusarium treated with Trilex AL produced a plant stand that was 1432% greater than the untreated inoculated check.
GRAIN YIELD – RHIZOCTONIA OR FUSARIUM INOCULATED TRIALS
TRILEX AL 39.4 bu/ac
126
APRON MAXX 39.8 bu/ac
126
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% EMERGENCE RELATIVE TO THE UNTREATED INOCULATED CHECK Source: 2003, 5 Bayer CropScience Research Trials.
Dr y bean crops treated with Trilex AL yielded 126% greater than the untreated inoculated checks.
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